, and paul ryan today and a couple who were excluded, chris christie, bob mcdonnell of virginia, you know, who for the time being are slightly persona nongrata, but that would only be for a very short time. this is a party with a future. it's got a party with a very strong and i think a winning ideology. i think this is a center right country and you know, there's a lot of despair among conservatives and republicans, that somehow the other party is the party of the future and demographics are running against us. i think that's simply not true. i think they are a party that is ideologically on the side of-- and as long as they nurture the young leaders who are coming up and stick to their principles, i think we have a very good chance. >> tucker: did you see the makings of any future dividing lines, fault lines? there are people walking throughout cpac, wearing "stand with rand" stickers on their blazers and i wonder if that suggests that some sort of real competition between the rand paul wing of the party going forward and say the marco rubio wing. do you think that's real? >> i thi